On Fri, 21 May 2010 00:21:12 +0200, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 18:04 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote:
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:05, Jeroen Op 't Eynde <jeroen@xprsyrslf.be> wrote:
There is a number 3.
3. Add [testing] and do a pacman -Sy package-you-like. It will install the latest package from testing and its dependencies. Remove [testing] again and you can go on using your non-testing system. I don't know if it is fail-proof but it worked for me with xorg-server (to 1.8). When I'm doing a pacman -Syu it just says that the packages installed are newer and therefore doesn't update these certain packages.
This will only work if the package uses versioned depends, which is not always the case. AND its a recipe for eventual system breakage...
Ok, that wasn't a very safe step I took. :D As I said it worked for me and I got luck. The PKGBUILD has indeed versioned depends (most of them). -- Jeroen Op 't Eynde - jeroen@xprsyrslf.be - http://xprsyrslf.be To read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting Steun Jeugdhuis de PUT via Donamail: http://www.donamail.be/default.asp?btnID=iYOviYvW